Getting ready for print & The GIMP

Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 269 Location: Santa Fe, NM

Howdy,
Just had a few questions about getting my photos ready for printing.
I currently do something like this:
(using The GIMP)

1. Adjust Contrast
2. Adjust saturation
3. Crop
4. Resize
5. Sharpen
6. Save

Does this seem the right way to go about it?

For B&W my first step is to use "Colorize" from tools->color
and set satuartion to 0 , then pick up with the above order.
Is this the correct way to convert to B&W. Also , do you guys use
the sharpen filter that comes with the GIMP to sharpen?

I currently dont convert to CMYK.

Thanks,
jd

Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 269 Location: Santa Fe, NM

Answered a few of my own questions...

1. BW conversion in GIMP http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Color2BW/
2. Dont use the sharpen filter , use unsharp mask

Woohoo , maybe ill post less and read more :x

jd